title: Unilateral lung hypoplasia: a rare cause of unilateral opaque hemithorax in chest X-ray in a young boy.
abstract: Congenital abnormalities of lung are very rare entity, and very often under or misdiagnosed by physicians. The present case, a 12-year boy, who was initially diagnosed as unilateral massive pleural effusion with collapse of lung, and after thorough investigation, including CT scan of thorax, fiber-optic bronchoscopy, and echocardiography, a final diagnosis of unilateral lung hypoplasia was made. So if a teenager present with a unilateral opaque hemithorax in chest X-ray, this entity may be a differential diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chest Medicine, RG Kar Medical College, Kolkata, India. drsoumya76@gmail.com
authors.forename: Soumya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bhattacharjee
authors.forename: Jaydip
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Deb
authors.forename: Arunabha
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dattachaudhuri
authors.forename: Sumit Roy
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Tapadar
authors.forename: Aparup
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dhua
authors.forename: Tanmay
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mukherjee
authors.forename: Priyanka
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ghosh
mesh_terms: D001999:Bronchoscopy; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D010996:Pleural Effusion / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic / Q000379:methods*